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Friday, June 19, 2009
More spray charts
Dave Allen gives us a bunch of spray charts. The more I see these, the more I presume that breakdowns by individual batters is where the real stories will come out. So far, we’re getting the right basis to whet our appetites. This chart shows the best spray angle off the bat to get maximum horizontal speed of the ball off the bat:
For RHB, you best spray angle for speed is zero to -30 degrees (i.e, from up the middle to the SS position). And similarly for LHB, it’s at zero to +25 degrees. It very close to being a mirror, but tt could be a small but real difference; most likely it is because the RHH prefers to pull the ball more because of the longer throw, and the LHH might be tempted to not pull as much because of the play to 1B. I will also guess that the spray charts would be similar for a RHH with a runner on 1B or not, but for a LHH, he probably has a more noticeable difference in spray when a runner is on 1B or not.
Love this stuff!
